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		<title>UK: Foreign minister attacks Google over &#8216;child abuse content&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2018 13:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt accused Google on Thursday of abandoning its moral values by failing to remove child abuse content while launching a version of its search engine in China that will block some websites. The British government has repeatedly criticized online platforms such as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook for failing to remove abusive [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The British government has repeatedly criticized online platforms such as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook for failing to remove abusive material or sexual content posted online even after they were notified.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;Seems extraordinary that Google is considering censoring its content to get into China but won’t cooperate with UK, US &#8230; in removing child abuse content,&#8221; Hunt said on Twitter. &#8220;They used to be so proud of being values-driven.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Alphabet&#8217;s Google plans a search engine in China that will block some search terms and websites, two sources told Reuters earlier this month, in a move that could mark its return to a market it abandoned eight years ago on censorship concerns.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Google said in a statement they agreed with Hunt that child sexual abuse was &#8220;abhorrent and must be removed, that’s why we co-operate with governments to fight child sexual abuse online&#8221;.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Britain, the United States, Australia, Canada and New Zealand invited major technology companies to attend a meeting on tackling child abuse and extremism on their websites, but the firms declined to attend, the <em>Daily Mail</em> reported on Thursday.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Google said they did offer to send an executive to the conference.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In January, Prime Minister Theresa May used an address at the World Economic Forum in Davos to say investors should use their financial power to force internet firms into taking more responsibility for stopping militants and paedophiles using their platforms.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Google, which quit China&#8217;s search engine market in 2010, has been actively seeking ways to re-enter China where many of its products are blocked by regulators.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Leading human rights groups, including Amnesty International, have urged Google not to bow to censorship demands in China because by doing so, they allege, the company would be complicit in the repression of freedom of speech.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Search terms about human rights, democracy, religion and peaceful protests will be among the words blacklisted in the search engine app, which The Intercept website said had already been demonstrated to the Chinese government.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The project, code-named &#8220;Dragonfly&#8221;, has been under way since the spring of 2017, the news website said.</p>
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		<title>Australia: Archbishop begins home detention over sex abuse cover-up</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2018 09:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A former Australian archbishop, the most senior Catholic cleric in the world convicted of concealing child sex abuse, was spared jail on Tuesday when he was ordered to serve his one-year sentence at home. Newcastle Court Magistrate Robert Stone allowed Philip Wilson, 67, to serve his detention at home after an assessment by prison authorities [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Newcastle Court Magistrate Robert Stone allowed Philip Wilson, 67, to serve his detention at home after an assessment by prison authorities due to a range of health issues, including heart disease, faced by the former archbishop.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Wilson was ordered to begin serving his detention on Tuesday in New South Wales state and would be eligible for parole in February 2019, the court said, without disclosing the address of where he would be held.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Australian Broadcasting Corp. Television showed Wilson being driven away from the court in Newcastle, about 170 km (105 miles) north of Sydney. It said he would be staying at his sister&#8217;s house.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Wilson has said he planned to appeal against his conviction for failing to disclose to police abuse by a priest, Father James Fletcher, after being told about it in 1976 by two victims.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">An angry victim of Fletcher who was not involved in the case against Wilson confronted the former archbishop outside the court, pressing him to apologise and saying the appeal process would prolong the pain suffered by abuse victims.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;Where is the contrition from former Archbishop Wilson? His Grace, as somebody just said upstairs, has shown no grace,&#8221; abuse survivor Peter Gogarty said outside the court.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;This man said two weeks ago he was resigning as the Archbishop of Adelaide because of the hurt done to people like me, but I am still here and still hurting,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Wilson resigned as archbishop of Adelaide in July, two months after being convicted. He wanted to hold on to the position until he completed his appeal but came under pressure from Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, fellow clerics and abuse victims to quit.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Pope Francis named Bishop Greg O&#8217;Kelly to run the Archdiocese of Adelaide until a new archbishop has been appointed.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;Bishop O&#8217;Kelly said he was keeping Archbishop Wilson in his prayers as he formally commences this stage in his life, while also remembering the victims and survivors of abuse in the church,&#8221; the archdiocese said in a statement.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Wilson would be staying at a relative&#8217;s home, it said.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, the country&#8217;s top Catholic body that Wilson once led, had no immediate comment.</p>
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